A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise.

PART I: TRANSITION TO AN INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY 1. The Evolution of Commerce and Industry 2. The Path to Industrialization PART II: THE TRANSFORMATION OF BRITISH COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY3. Rebuilding British Commerce and Industry4. Postwar Commerce and Industry in Britain5. UK Commerce and Industry in the New Millennium PART III: GERMAN COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN WAR AND PEACE6. German Commerce and Industry in the Interwar Years7. The German Economic Miracle and Reunification8. Commerce and Industry in a United Germany PART IV: JAPAN ' 'S PATH TO A MODERN INDUSTRIAL STATE 9. Commerce and Industry in the Meiji Period10. Twentieth Century Japanese Commerce and industry11. Japan in the Twenty-first Century PART V: U.S. COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY12. U. S. Commerce and Trade in Crisis and Renewal13. Post-War Industrial Leadership 14. U.S. Commerce and Industry in the Global Economy